COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (Details)	Sep. 30, 2015
Commitments and Contingencies [Line Items]
Number Of Former Manufactured Gas Sites Where We Own Or Retain Legal Responsibility For Environmental Conditions	12
Number of sites where we have completed or addressed removal of the source of soil contamination according to plans approved by KDHE	11
Number of sites where regulatory closure has been achieved	3
Percentage yield of high consequence pipeline areas	30.00%